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Activity Number:
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257
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Business and Economics Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #305216 |
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Title:
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Current Population Survey Response to the Hurricane Katrina Disaster
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Author(s):
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Edwin L. Robison and Anne Polivka and Diane Herz*+ and Lawrence Cahoon and Richard Ning and Maria Reed and Greg Weyland
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Companies:
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Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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, Washington, DC, ,
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Keywords:
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sample survey ; disaster ; CPS
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Abstract:
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The Current Population Survey (CPS) publishes monthly labor force estimates for the national Civilian Noninstitutional Population and provides vital data series for state labor force models produced by the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused widespread devastation and unprecedented population displacements. This disrupted CPS field operations, processing, and estimation for September 2005 and had a continuing effect. This paper covers the CPS program's response to the challenges presented by the Katrina disaster. Procedures were developed to track population shifts. Questions were added to the survey instrument to capture persons displaced by Hurricane Katrina and to the supplement on displaced workers. Some analysis of the effect of Hurricane Katrina on labor force estimates is included.
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